Facebook lets beheading clips return to social network

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Facebook is allowing videos showing people being decapitated to be posted and shared on its site once again.

The social network had introduced a temporary ban in May following complaints that the clips could cause long-term psychological damage.

The US firm confirmed it now believed its users should be free to watch and condemn such videos. It added it was, however, considering adding warnings.
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http://bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24608499

I found this rather puzzling. Considering there are many young children on Facebook, shouldn't they be at least making some sort of effort to screen this sort of content?

I've seen these sorts of videos in the past and while they don't tend to bother me too much, they are pretty horrific to say the least.

Clearly things will slip through the net, but to make little to no effort to stop it seems bizarre, especially when any form of nudity is strictly prohibited...
 
Dont know why they just dont require you to login and it checks your age, as well as display the graphic warning which they've done.
 
Meh. Not much of an issue, really. It's not like videos posted by people on your list are playing automatically. Don't like what you see from the description and the thumbnail, then don't click "play".

The children argument doesn't cut it either. There shouldn't be young children on Facebook -- at least not unmonitored. In this age parents need to be educating themselves and learning how to restrict the online consumption of their spawn. Facebook is such an open forum, with a system that allows anyone to quite literally step into the social sphere of a youngster, and parents shouldn't allow their children to be a part of that.

Mind you, if they're going to allow videos of graphic real life violence, I'd like my friends to be able to share more videos and pics of sexeh tittehs pls.
 
The internet isn't a babysitter for your kids.

However, I didn't think Facebook would be taking this stance. Either you censor stuff to a defined level along the lines of how films are, or you decide your users are all adults and can make their own minds up about content on the site. To make a stand on videos of severed heads but get into a frenzy if someone posts up some **** is interesting to say the least.

Edit: Ok so we're censoring that word for breasts now. That's what those stars were up there. In a weird twist of fate that paragraph about Facebook could equally apply here.
 
Pestilence said:
The children argument doesn't cut it either. There shouldn't be young children on Facebook -- at least not unmonitored. In this age parents need to be educating themselves and learning how to restrict the online consumption of their spawn. Facebook is such an open forum, with a system that allows anyone to quite literally step into the social sphere of a youngster, and parents shouldn't allow their children to be a part of that.

Mind you, if they're going to allow videos of graphic real life violence, I'd like my friends to be able to share more videos and pics of sexeh tittehs pls.
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This. You have to be 13 to register on Facebook but I've seen plenty of parents creating accounts for their kids in years 1-3. Boggles the mind, especially when they're the first ones to be up in arms about what their kids are seeing online.

Young children using the Internet unmonitored is extremely irresponsible and bad parenting. Shameful, really.
 
I don't think it's the responsibility of Facebook to hide what happens in the big bad world, however graphic and extreme that may be. Unfortunately this stuff does happen and censoring it doesn't make it go away.

In the case of videos, people have to choose to play them - if they are confused about the video title saying "Man beheaded live on camera" then they don't deserve to be on the internet.

In the same vein, I don't believe Facebook should censor anything else. I can't stand hearing parents on the train moan about how "Our Jack said he has seen all sorts of stuff on that Facebook" - your Jack will no doubt see a pair of knockers in real life one day too, love.
 
a) There shouldn't be children on Facebook.
b) Parents should regulate content for their children via parental controls.
c) It's another classic Western thing of "Violence is okay, but nudity is bad" which frankly is more damaging than the viewing of the violence itself.

And on a slightly unrelated note, I stumbled upon a profile the other day (friend of a friend of a friend) who has a picture of her naked (breasts and such were cropped but she was clearly on all fours on a bed) clearly smothered in feces. After reporting the picture, Facebook decided to leave it there as it didn't violate any of their rules apparently.
 
Gackt said:
And on a slightly unrelated note, I stumbled upon a profile the other day (friend of a friend of a friend) who has a picture of her naked (breasts and such were cropped but she was clearly on all fours on a bed) clearly smothered in feces. After reporting the picture, Facebook decided to leave it there as it didn't violate any of their rules apparently.
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Facebook's refusal to remove that vile post is pretty ****
 
One of my friends tagged someone in the video of 2 guys getting beheaded and it showed on her newsfeed.

She did get some **** from some people for it.

Why is this on facebook? nobody wants to see it
 
Disaster said:
One of my friends tagged someone in the video of 2 guys getting beheaded and it showed on her newsfeed.

She did get some **** from some people for it.

Why is this on facebook? nobody wants to see it
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Yet then why should she get **** for that? If someone is idiotic enough to tag you on such material, then your first response should be to tell them that you're not happy about such activity.

If people then continue, despite that, to denigrate you about it then it's just another issue to be approached. Socially. Hence a social network.
 
Pestilence said:
Yet then why should she get **** for that? If someone is idiotic enough to tag you on such material, then your first response should be to tell them that you're not happy about such activity.

If people then continue, despite that, to denigrate you about it then it's just another issue to be approached. Socially. Hence a social network.
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Read what I said. I wasn't tagged, she tagged someone thats not even on my friends list, yet it still showed up on my newsfeed
 
id rather see a beheading than constant streams about "my kids pooped" or "i need attention"
 
Doesn't bother me in the slightest, when all said and done, humans are just meat and **** like this actually happens in the real world each and every day. The mainstream media may censor it, but it does happen! If you don't want to see it, then don't click on the bloody links to it!
 
Doesn't bother me, if you don't want to watch it don't click it.

Minimum age for FB is 13 if your letting your kids on there under that age and they see it then it's on the parents as far as I'm concerned.
 
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